I'm a newbie to spice. I've been doing the experiments and reading the first chapter on DC. I've installed about 3 versions of spice on Windows 7 and linux. I've followed the instructions in the chapter on "Computer simulation of electric circuits" but I don't get the same results. After running the program in different ways, all I get is some line about the temperature. According to the doc, I should be getting some voltage and power output. I suspect I'm either doing something wrong, or need to do something else. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I ran in to a similar problem when using Spice version 3.5.5 on Linux. The main problem appears to stem from the book (Lessons in Electric Circuits) using Spice version 2G6, which appears to have slightly different input deck specification requirements than version 3.5.5.

Here is what the input deck for the first circuit should look like to work on Spice 3.5.5: